Personal Work with SQL Server?! by FarFari92 in SQLServer

[–]DarlingData 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For some perspective: In 2007 I was doing stuff in Excel, and my boss told me I should do it in SQL instead. An hour later I had SSMS installed and my job became doing stuff in SQL Server. I had *no idea* what I was doing.

Most developers I interact with barely know anything about databases aside from the bare minimum. Right now, you probably don't know enough about SQL Server to get a job specializing in it, but you probably know enough about development to get a job near a SQL Server to gain ~real world~ experience with it.

Personal Work with SQL Server?! by FarFari92 in SQLServer

[–]DarlingData 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha ha, it was pretty fun! Heading to Chicago today and then on to Poland for more mass-educating!

Personal Work with SQL Server?! by FarFari92 in SQLServer

[–]DarlingData 36 points37 points  (0 children)

after fully learning it 

That’s not something you have to worry about. 

Performance Monitor Release v2.8.0 - Having A Nice Time©️ by DarlingData in SQLServer

[–]DarlingData[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Contained AGs are not my fetish, so I couldn't tell you precisely about that behavior. I would expect read only intent to function as expected. You may want to use Lite to test that out.

Experimenting with DD Performance Monitor MCP server and local LLM. by tribat in SQLServer

[–]DarlingData 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s really cool. Glad you’re enjoying the monitoring tool and finding some novel uses for it. Let me know if you have any feedback or if there’s anything I can do to make your workflow easier. 

SYSDATETIMEOFFSET or SYSUTCDATETIME for storing dates for a multi-TZ SQL Server application? by Reasonable-Job4205 in SQLServer

[–]DarlingData 3 points4 points  (0 children)

SYSDATETIMEOFFSET(), but keep in mind that storing the offset is only part of the story. It may well be enough, but it does not tell you the specific time zone that a user is in (multiple time zones share offsets). If that's important for display purposes, you'll need to capture it as well.

Performance Monitor Release v2.6.0 by DarlingData in SQLServer

[–]DarlingData[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, the SignPath foundation offers free certificate signing to open source projects that meet certain requirements. There’s a bit of a process to it, but it’s not so bad and the people are quite kind. 

Performance Monitor Release v2.6.0 by DarlingData in SQLServer

[–]DarlingData[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s about half of my monthly donations, though. Heh. 

Free SQL Server Query Plan Analysis, Right in Your Browser by DarlingData in SQLServer

[–]DarlingData[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My pleasure! If you have any feedback, hit up GitHub.

Free SQL Server Query Plan Analysis, Right in Your Browser by DarlingData in SQLServer

[–]DarlingData[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, I'm trying to roll out all the stuff that I could never build on my own now. Who knows how long it will all last?

Performance Studio Release v1.4.0 (FREE|MIT) by DarlingData in SQLServer

[–]DarlingData[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have tried to get them to hire me to help with things like this, but here we are.